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Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947. He graduated from University of maine. He then became a teacher and an established writer. Stephen King is also known as John Swithen and Richard Bachman. His books have sold all over the world and have been turned into movies and tv shows. As a toddler his parents separated and his mother raised his older brother and himself. Stephen King lived in Ford, Wayne Indiana and in Stanford , Connecticut. When he turned eleven he moved to Durham, Maine and that was for good. Stephen King attended Lisbon Falls high school and later own went to the University of Maine at Orono. While attending school he published his first short story. Working as a librarian in 1969 he met the love of his life Tabitha …show more content…

His mother didn't take her sister's death to well. Later on in August of 1973 Stephen King’s mother was diagnosed with uterine cancer. The next year after his mother being diagnosed with cancer she died. She died in February sometime around six in the morning and her last words to her two children were “my boys”. At his mother's funeral King was drunk. After the death of his mother King throw himself into a downhill spiral. At first he did not notice the downhill spiral he was on. Stephen King began to drink more and more alcohol. To justify his drinking he would say that he just likes to drink. Finally in the eighties he notice his drinking problem. He found out by how fast his recycle bin was filling up. Even after he figured out about his addiction he continued to drink. His family also notice Stephen’s problem but hoped he would fix it own his own. His addition continued to escalate and by 1985 King became a drug and alcohol addict. He would have beer cans, cigarette butts, cocaine in gram bottles, cocaine in plastic baggies, coke spoons caked with snot and blood, valine , xanax, bottles of robitussin cough syrup, NyQuil cold medicine, and even bottles of mouthwash in his office. King would not drink the Listerine bottles because he did not like the taste. So instead of Listerine he would drink Scope mouthwash because it had more of a mint flavor to it. That is what about the max of his addiction looked

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